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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. DNA is made up of of how many different nucleotides?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Eight.

2. What did MIT scholar Vannevar Bush create?
(a) The CAT scan.
(b) The Differential Analyzer.
(c) The difference engine.
(d) The telegram.

3. Where was knowledge stored prior to the written word?
(a) In the mind.
(b) By legend.
(c) Word of wise men.
(d) In tribal strongholds.

4. Entropy is the physical equivalent of what state?
(a) Possibility.
(b) Normality.
(c) Probability.
(d) Sequencing.

5. What two main strategies have been developed to cope with the volume of today's information?
(a) Filtering and searching.
(b) Searching and storing.
(c) Archiving and filtering.
(d) Deleting and saving.

Short Answer Questions

1. At an exclusive meeting in New York City, Shannon commented that the English language had what characteristic?

2. An alphabetical list did not take what element of the word into account at all, but mechanically placed it in a slot based on the order of the letters?

3. What was the intent of the Principia Mathematica?

4. What has the Internet changed about the storing of information?

5. What did cosmologist George Gamow immediately recognize about DNA as a code and proposed that it could be deciphered mathematically?

(see the answer key)

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